WEBVTT 00:00:00.719 --> 00:00:07.759 Welcome to another unboxing in first look. And I'm totally going to do this. 00:00:04.160 --> 00:00:09.679 I'm going to put on the little 00:00:07.759 --> 00:00:14.400 We're filming in 60 FPS, which will be of zero benefit to y'all on the uh the 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:18.960 YouTubes, but uh that'll make the motion clear for when I review the footage 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:25.359 later. This is the Aver Media Recentral Live Gamer HD. Capture and share your PC 00:00:22.720 --> 00:00:28.960 game footage. Okay, full HD 1080p. There's a sticker on here. So, it seems 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:34.719 it was probably added sometime after the packaging design, but you can live stream with XSplit. This thing is very, 00:00:32.800 --> 00:00:39.680 very compatible with XSplit streaming software, and it makes it very easy to 00:00:36.480 --> 00:00:41.280 use. See, no plastic seal. This is not 00:00:39.680 --> 00:00:45.440 my first time opening this product. I have actually used it already, and it's 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:47.920 pretty faking awesome. So, let's go ahead and have a look at the back of the 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:52.719 packaging here. And I want to show you guys what's going on. So, we got HDMI or 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:57.920 DVI connectors. You can just use you can adapt DVI to HDMI. So, it has an input 00:00:55.520 --> 00:01:01.359 and an output. That's how you it gets a signal from your video card and then 00:00:59.680 --> 00:01:05.280 passes it through to your monitor. It uses a PCI Express interface because due 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:10.960 to the enormous amount of bandwidth involved in capturing HDMI, it does need 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:16.960 PCIe. It has an H.264 hardware compression engine built into it. So, 00:01:14.080 --> 00:01:20.880 the major advantage of this approach versus something like a Blackmagic 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:26.799 Intensity Pro, which is one of the other most commonly used HDMI capture cards, 00:01:23.759 --> 00:01:28.720 is that while you lose some of the color 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:34.560 depth and some of the subsampling and whatnot, you gain the fact that your CPU 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:38.560 is not responsible for doing any of the compression. Remember guys, if you're 00:01:36.320 --> 00:01:42.720 not compressing 1080p footage, you're going to be working with enormous files 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:48.960 that you'll have to have like a multiple hard drive array or an SSD to even copy 00:01:46.479 --> 00:01:52.720 those files from the capture device to your hard drive. All right, moving right 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:57.040 along. You got a dedicated record button, so you can easily just press the 00:01:54.479 --> 00:02:01.360 button when you're ready to record. And Rec Central, so that's their software. 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:05.360 Recentral allows you to configure it as much or as little as you want. So, you 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:09.280 can either use the totally I forget what they call them, but it's like capture 00:02:07.119 --> 00:02:12.560 wizard or amateur. So, you can there's three different wizards that you can use 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:17.760 to set it up. And one of them is so simple. You basically press the button and it's ready to go. You can record 00:02:16.160 --> 00:02:22.959 voice commentary with your gameplay. That's good. It does have a pass through for audio as well. Stream your live 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:27.840 gameplay over the internet using uh Twitch TV or XSplit to Twitch TV. Uh 00:02:26.319 --> 00:02:31.680 profile selection and overview. Yeah, the profiles. Those are easy. So, there 00:02:29.840 --> 00:02:38.959 you go. The maximum recording quality is 1080p at 30 FPS. You can also do 720p at 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:41.519 60 FPS if you prefer to have a more 00:02:38.959 --> 00:02:45.280 fluid frame rate versus a higher overall resolution. Remember, most people 00:02:43.200 --> 00:02:50.959 watching your video are not going to be watching it at full screen. So, if you 00:02:48.879 --> 00:02:54.720 filmed at 720p in order to get better fluidity, especially for something like 00:02:52.480 --> 00:02:58.560 FPS gaming, you might find that to be an advantage. The packaging is excellent. 00:02:56.319 --> 00:03:04.159 See, they got like a cool little sort of shimmery black sort of thing going on on 00:03:01.200 --> 00:03:07.920 the cover for this. And uh Oh, right. Another reason you might want to film at 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:12.720 720p 60 FPS is if you're capturing from a console. So, it's fully capable of 00:03:10.239 --> 00:03:16.480 capturing from the PC you're gaming on, from another PC that you're not gaming 00:03:14.640 --> 00:03:20.560 on. Although, there's not much point in doing that because a big part of the 00:03:18.640 --> 00:03:23.920 advantage is the built-in uh the built-NVIDIA engine in here that makes 00:03:22.239 --> 00:03:28.480 it so you don't have to waste CPU cycles. And you can also use it to 00:03:26.480 --> 00:03:33.599 capture console footage on a PC that is nearby. So before we get too far into 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:39.360 the uh device itself, let's have a look at all the other stuff that's included. 00:03:36.239 --> 00:03:42.159 So first things first, there's our 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:47.120 ready to record button. It's just a USB sort of software enabled hardware button 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:50.879 that you can keep up on your desk. We've also got their software which is 00:03:49.200 --> 00:03:54.560 included, but you can also download on the Aver Media website. They've made so 00:03:52.959 --> 00:03:58.159 many revisions to the software over the last little while that continue to 00:03:56.080 --> 00:04:01.680 improve it. I'm very impressed with the way that they continue to support the 00:03:59.920 --> 00:04:06.239 product. Sometimes you see these kinds of products where they're kind of purpose-built specialty pieces of 00:04:04.959 --> 00:04:11.040 hardware and they'll kind of release it and they'll go, "Oh yeah, no, the software is fine. Just don't worry about 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:14.480 it." Um, but it's not fine and you do have to worry about it. In this case, 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:19.600 they are actually trying to make sure that they're keeping everything updated 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:21.680 and everything coup xsplit broadcaster 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:24.320 gift certificate. Oh, okay. Cool. So, apparently they're giving you a deal on 00:04:22.800 --> 00:04:29.280 XSplit. XSplit is awesome, by the way. XSplit is what I use to do my live 00:04:25.840 --> 00:04:30.240 streams. Um, okay. Content. Okay. We're 00:04:29.280 --> 00:04:35.520 not going to read too much about that. Let's have a look at included accessories. So, just a three and a half 00:04:32.400 --> 00:04:38.000 millimeter audio cable. Uh, oh, look at 00:04:35.520 --> 00:04:44.000 that. They include uh a DVI to HDMI adapter. So, if you 00:04:40.320 --> 00:04:46.240 wanted to capture HDMI in from a DVI 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:50.160 output on a video card, you just go like that. Well, you'd have to have a DVI 00:04:48.080 --> 00:04:56.160 cable out to this, but you guys get the point. So you might go HDMI out to your 00:04:54.080 --> 00:05:00.800 DVI monitor and sort of everything would be cool. And then this one is for the 00:04:59.280 --> 00:05:04.400 other way around, right? So this one, so you can go out from DVI from your video 00:05:02.479 --> 00:05:08.560 card and then use a small HDMI cable to go into here. And they actually include 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:12.720 the HDMI cable you need. So they include pretty much all the cables you need to 00:05:09.919 --> 00:05:16.479 get going because you'll already have DVI out from your from your video card. 00:05:14.880 --> 00:05:20.240 That's what they're assuming. So you just 00:05:18.080 --> 00:05:24.320 Excuse me. Sorry. You swap this. You use this HDMI cable to go into the input and 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:27.600 then you go DVI out to your monitor and you're ready to go. So, we'll have a 00:05:25.520 --> 00:05:32.479 close look at the card itself. It's got sort of a, you know, shield on it that 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:35.759 may or may not do anything, but looks really nice. It's got like a brushed 00:05:33.919 --> 00:05:41.360 metal finish on it. There's your PCI Express OneX interface. Flipping over to 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:43.840 the back, um, just got some logos and 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:47.840 stuff. And this is the business end. So, there's your HDMI out that goes out to 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:53.280 the device you're going to be using to monitor what's actually going on. So your monitor or your TV there's HDMI in 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:59.199 that goes from the device that's outputting the signal you want to capture audio out and audio in to go 00:05:56.960 --> 00:06:05.039 along with those although you are not forced to use the analog connectors you 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:08.319 can also capture audio over HDMI which I 00:06:05.039 --> 00:06:11.039 have done with this card already. 00:06:08.319 --> 00:06:15.520 So what's the point? Lots of people are streaming on XSplit. Okay, do yourselves 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:19.440 a favor. Go look up PewDiePie on YouTube. 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:24.160 Mind blown. It's the most bizarre thing in the world, but he's making hundreds 00:06:21.199 --> 00:06:27.840 of thousands of dollars streaming games and sort of having a webcam going in the 00:06:26.080 --> 00:06:33.600 background. So, I'm not saying that you buy one of these, you're going to make back your investment like that. But, if 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:37.039 you're good at it, then there's a huge advantage to having something like this 00:06:34.880 --> 00:06:40.800 because instead of using up CPU cycles, which will cause your game performance 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:44.720 to degrade because unless you have a beast CPU, that's just what happens. 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:48.639 This does all the compression of the footage on its own. You can use it to 00:06:46.880 --> 00:06:54.080 capture external sources such as consoles as well. So, it gives you more 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:56.080 flexibility and it works very seamlessly 00:06:54.080 --> 00:07:00.080 compared to and the compatibility is better compared to the Blackmagic 00:06:57.440 --> 00:07:03.680 Intensity Pro that I also own. So, thank you for checking out my unboxing and 00:07:01.520 --> 00:07:06.639 first look at the A Media Live Gamer HD. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:09.960 Tips for unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos.